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Misqumaicut area MAJOR REPLENISHMENT project

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has one ambitious plan for Misquamicut State Beach in the wake of damage from Superstorm Sandy. Specifically, the Corps wants to take on Mother Nature and bring in an estimated 90,000 cubic yards of sand that agency engineers figure have been taken away over the decades. The vision is to bring the state beach property back to how it looked on opening day in 1959.

"The proposal calls for about 3,000 truckloads of sand to be distributed along a 150-foot-wide area between the dunes and the water — and into the water — to a depth of about 2 to 3 feet. The sand would be spread along the entire 3,200-foot length of the beach"

You can see in this file there planning on placing sand IN THE WATER basically all the way to where the waves break. This sounds like a complete disaster. This isn't simply a little dumping of sand after sandy. Their planning on getting it back to 1959 levels with a 2-5 million dollar project on the ENTIRE stretch of beach.

It's supposed to be completed by THIS May before beach season begins. It was supposed to start in march. Anyone around there see any action yet? How come there was never any fight against this by surf chapters that I heard about? They really seemed to back door this and they seem to have ZERO interest in doing replenishing while still preserving the good sandbar.

Also, this already a VERY short sandbar, unlike gansett town beach/2nd beach. So sand will be placed almost to where the waves break right now. I think this break might be toast Probably no sand bar at all. Just a surge wave/wave that breaks on sand. Horrible

"In order to extend the
boundary of the MLW line sand mounds will be pushed out into the surf zone using earth-moving
equipment. This project will require up to 90,000 cubic yards of sand to be placed on the beach and
expect the nearshore area to be impacted out to at least the -5 foot depth contour. It is expected to
take approximately two months to complete the proposed project and all work will completed by
May 23, 2014.
"

Their completely out of their minds trying to get it back to 1959. There will be no sandbar left. If you look in that pdf file at the -5 line, they are basically going to push sand right onto the final sandbar before the already sharp drop off that's there right now. In order to save this break they'd have to create a sandbar farther out which their not doing.
1959 MisqumiacutMISQUAMICUT_1959.jpg
Modern MisquamicutMI-2536_xlarge.jpgMisquamicut_Beach_RI_2.jpgmisquamicut-state-beach.jpg

Their completely out of their minds trying to get it back to 1959. There will be no sandbar left. If you look in that pdf file at the -5 line, they are basically going to push sand right onto the final sandbar before the already sharp drop off that's there right now. In order to save this break they'd have to create a sandbar farther out which their not doing.
1959 MisqumiacutMISQUAMICUT_1959.jpg
Modern MisquamicutMI-2536_xlarge.jpgMisquamicut_Beach_RI_2.jpgmisquamicut-state-beach.jpg

Dude brah man bro mang broski, no offense, but not every beach replenishment relies on waves. Not every decision is made around the waveriders. We got lucky on the Ruggles save, but this one, I think this is going to be a doozie.

Dude brah man bro mang broski, no offense, but not every beach replenishment relies on waves. Not every decision is made around the waveriders. We got lucky on the Ruggles save, but this one, I think this is going to be a doozie.

You can adjust it so it doesn't destroy the waves. We are not the only ones unhappy about this. It also sucks for anyone just wanting to play in the waves. Dangerous steep beach. People like to wade in the water and play in the waves. Not take 2 steps and be neck deep. It's also an absolute fortune at 5 million for just under a mile. This is one of the very few beach breaks in RI. We only have a few that don't shore pound. Most of the sandy beaches are not rideable already west of gansett. Why destroy one of the few. Ridiculous.

"The use of finer (rather than coarser) grained sand for beachfill projects has been shown to
widen beaches without steepening beach slopes to the detriment of surfing and swimming conditions.
Beach fill projects done in Dewey and Rehoboth in 1998 using finer sand from Hen and Chicken Shoal,
and Ocean City Maryland using finer grained sand have improved or at least maintained quality surfing
and swimming conditions. T"

"t shoreline management activities in Delaware should not and need not
create an exodus of surfers from Delaware to Maryland and elsewhere. Beach nourishment projects
have been performed in Ocean City Maryland since the 1980s and have been designed in such a way
that surfing has only been temporarily impacted by the projects and quality surf breaks usually return
within a month or two of the dredging ending"

http://archive.delawareonline.com/ar...-among-surfers
"“Beaches aren’t supposed to look like that. Beaches are supposed to be undulating, kind of ebb and flow. The coastline isn’t supposed to be ruler-edged. And yet, that’s what we take these big giant bulldozers and try to create"

"“Our sandbars for surfing are so close to the beach,” he said. “When they fill that in, they basically take away whatever wave there is.”"